Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen end relationship

Natasha Lyonne, the star and co-creator of Netflix's "Russian Doll," and writer-actor Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live," "Portlandia") have broken up after a relationship that began in 2014.

Native New Yorker Lyonne, 43, told The Hollywood Reporter in a story published Friday that she and Armisen had been living together in Los Angeles, including during the pandemic lockdown. "I honestly think we broke up because I wanted a swimming pool," she said. "We love each other just about as much as two people can love each other and we're still talking all the time, but Freddy doesn't like a swimming pool. It might seem like a mundane reason for a breakup, but during that pandemic, you've got to get your laps … . So, I got myself a house with a pool out in Los Angeles. … I guess I finally am an actual bicoastal."

It was unclear how serious she was regarding the stated reason, and neither she nor Armisen, 55, who was raised primarily in Valley Stream, have commented on social media. They were last photographed together publicly shortly before the lockdown, at the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills in January 2020.

In September 2021, a British tabloid ran multiple photos of Lyonne walking hand-in-hand with an unidentified man on Labor Day at California's Malibu Chili Cook-Off.

Lyonne and Armisen, who had been introduced by mutual friend Maya Rudolph, one of Armisen's "SNL" cast mates, first appeared in public behaving romantically at a post-Emmy Awards party sponsored by Netflix at Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont hotel in August 2014.

Armisen had been married to musician Sally Timms of the Mekons from 1998 to 2004, and then briefly to "Mad Men" and "The Handmaid's Tale" star Elisabeth Moss from October 2009 until separating the following June and having their divorce finalized in May 2011.

Armisen, who was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where his parents were attending college, lived in Valley Stream for a year during kindergarten before the family relocated to Rio de Janeiro for his father's work, and then again from fourth grade through graduation from Valley Stream Central High School in 1985. A Newsday delivery boy as a youth, he went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and moved  to Chicago in 1988.